Relates to enacting the SIGH act to prohibit the construction of new schools near a major roadway
Summary
Enacts the "schools impacted by gross highways (SIGH) act"; prohibits the commissioner of education from approving the plans for the erection of any new schoolhouse within five hundred feet of a controlled-access highway unless the commissioner of education determines that space limitations are so severe that there is no other site to erect such new schoolhouse.
Bill status
vetoed
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2021
Committee Review
May 2022
Assembly Passage
May 2022
Senate Passage
Jun 2022
Vetoed
Dec 2022
Introduced Feb 24, 2021
Vetoed Dec 23, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Jun 2, 2022 · Assembly May 31, 2022
How they voted
45–16
Passed
Total votes 61
Jun 2, 2022
D
Democratic42
100% Yea
R
Republican19
84% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
7
Committee
4
Amendments
6
Dec 23, 2022
Amended
TABLED
lower
Dec 23, 2022
Vetoed
VETOED MEMO.143
lower
Jun 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
PASSED SENATE
upper
May 31, 2022
Committee
REFERRED TO FINANCE
upper
May 31, 2022
Lower · Passed
PASSED ASSEMBLY
lower
May 27, 2022
Lower · Passed
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO RULES 5735C
lower
May 25, 2022
Committee
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
lower
May 19, 2022
Lower · Passed
PRINT NUMBER 5735B
lower
May 19, 2022
Lower · Passed
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
lower
Jan 5, 2022
Committee
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
lower
Nov 5, 2021
Lower · Passed
PRINT NUMBER 5735A
lower
Nov 5, 2021
Lower · Passed
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
lower
Feb 24, 2021
Committee
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
lower
1 primary · 7 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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